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Key Takeaways The College Board is introducing a new AP course that combines business education with practical skills in managing money.
The yearlong AP Business with Personal Finance course will launch nationally in the 2026-27 school year.
Business remains the largest undergraduate degree category in the United States.
A new Advanced Placement (AP) course is bringing personal finance into the classroom and making it a standard part of the American high school experience.
According to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal, the College Board will add a new AP offering this fall that combines business education with practical skills on managing money.
The College Board designed the yearlong AP Business with Personal Finance course as the equivalent of an introductory college-level business class. It teaches students how to make personal finance decisions before they enter college or the workforce.
Students will study entrepreneurship, marketing, finance, accounting and management through case studies and project-based work in the first-of-its-kind AP course. Alongside those subjects, they will learn personal finance fundamentals including budgeting, saving and investing.
The course is aligned with national personal finance standards created by the Council for Economic Education and the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy.
The goal of the course
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